# 1813 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1813 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
* Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
* Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver
* Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

## Events

* January - Sir Joseph Bailey sells his 25% share in Cyfarthfa ironworks for £20,000.
* April - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) moves to Crickhowell to take over several parishes in the vicinity.
* 30 September - Sir Jeremiah Homfray is forced to sell his house at Cwm Rhondda to settle his debts.
* 2 November - Richard Parry Price, heir to the Puleston estates, is created a baronet.
* date unknown
** Anthony Hill and his two brothers go into partnership at the Plymouth ironworks.
** The "Branwen ferch Llŷr" sepulchral urn is discovered on the banks of the river Alaw in Anglesey (later placed in the British Museum by Richard Llwyd).
** The first permanent military barracks in Wales are opened at Brecon.
** An Independent minister, David Davies, is forced to leave his teaching post at Carmarthen Academy after charges of "immorality" are made against him.
** David Daniel Davis is appointed a physician at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London.
** Charles James Apperley becomes agent for his brother-in-law's estates in Caernarvonshire, taking up residence at Tŷ Gwyn, Llanbeblig.
** Diana Noel, 2nd Baroness Barham, settles at Fairy Hill, Gower.
** Thomas Charles of Bala publishes his "rules" for the conduct of Sunday schools.
** Elijah Waring founds a new periodical, The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany, which fails after eight months.

## Arts and literature
### New books
#### English language

* Hugh Davies - Welsh Botanology … A Systematic Catalogue of the Native Plants of Anglesey, in Latin, English, and Welsh
* Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of North Wales
* M. Surrey - Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, or Gellert the Faithful Dog (play)

#### Welsh language

* William Owen - Lloffion o Faes Boaz
* William Williams (Gwilym Peris) - Awengerdd Peris

### Music
## Births

* 30 January - Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, Biblical scholar (d. 1875)
* 2 May - Mordecai Jones, industrialist (d. 1880)
* 30 June - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
* 1 August - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)
* 12 September - Daniel Jones, missionary (d. 1846)
* 10 October - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
* date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)

## Deaths

* 9 March - Edward Williams, minister and theologian, 62
* 23 March - Princess Augusta of Great Britain, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and mother of Caroline of Brunswick, later Princess of Wales, 75
* 17 April - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
* 28 July - John Randolph, former Bishop of Bangor, 64
* 11 August (or 12 August) - John Price, librarian, 78
* date unknown - Edward Pugh, artist